27 December 2021
This week's additions focus on mindset, marketing, and founder stories, with new digests from TK Kader, Layla at ProcessDriven, and Silicon Valley Girl. Highlights include Fix the flywheel choke point before spending more on acquisition. Me Mode and dependency filters cut task-list overwhelm instantly.
Showing 10 digests for 27 December 2021.
Five proven growth strategies for SaaS using the flywheel framework
TK Kader
January 2, 2022
Growth hacking
9
Sales systems & CRM
7
Pricing strategy
6
Fix the flywheel choke point before spending more on acquisition.
Referrals and upsells grow revenue at a fraction of normal CAC.
Most activation failures trace back to demos showing too much too soon.
Automation & tools
YouTube
Five ClickUp settings to stay productive as a solopreneur
Layla at ProcessDriven
December 31, 2021
Automation & tools
9
Productivity & habits
7
Me Mode and dependency filters cut task-list overwhelm instantly.
Enforcement automations make ClickUp nag you so you don't have to.
Three spaces max — a simpler structure is a faster workspace.
Goal setting for 2022: people, beauty, and slow living
Silicon Valley Girl
December 30, 2021
Goal setting
9
Relationships & family
7
Delegation
5
Why chasing material goals signals you lack a real vision
Hiring experts in every life sphere beats doing it yourself
Slow living: protect your energy for the work you love
Deep work & focus
Podcast
Deep work, discipline, and designing a life that fits you
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 30, 2021
Deep work & focus
9
Productivity & habits
7
Identity & self-belief
5
Concurrent communication monitoring fragments your brain — batch it instead.
Discipline is intentional action toward what you value, not coercion.
The deep life has no single template — find what genuinely pulls you.
Five essential link building tools and how to use them
Ahrefs
December 29, 2021
Google search operators unlock far more prospecting power than most people use
Competitor anchor text reveals the exact hook that earned hundreds of links
Unlinked brand mentions are warm prospects — Screaming Frog finds them fast
How Mud/Wtr built a $60 million business with one product
Noah Kagan
December 29, 2021
Origin stories
9
Branding
8
Business models
6
Launched a coffee alternative in a weekend with $5,000 and Amazon spices
Supply chain near-killed the business before a friend's $25K check saved it
Picking coffee as the enemy built a brand worth more than the product
Siggi Wilzig: From Auschwitz Survivor to Wall Street Banking Legend
Founders
December 29, 2021
Origin stories
10
Prospecting & outreach
6
Resilience & grit
6
Lying about his age and trade at Auschwitz literally saved his life
He grew a bank from $180M to $4B with no mergers — one customer at a time
Spoiling customers into becoming ambassadors was his entire growth engine
How Sam Parr built and sold The Hustle to HubSpot
Startups For the Rest of Us
December 28, 2021
Case studies
9
Email marketing
8
Exit strategy
6
Running a newsletter like a SaaS company unlocks paid acquisition at scale.
HubSpot bought The Hustle for lead generation, not content — the math was simple.
Bootstrappable niches hiding in plain sight: trucking lead gen, recycling, family memoirs.
Resilience & grit
YouTube
How rich people make decisions faster and with less anxiety
Dan Martell
December 27, 2021
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Delegation
5
Decision anxiety causes more pain than most bad outcomes ever would
Irreversible decisions need rigour; reversible ones need speed
A documented process lets others decide for you without emotion
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Cal Newport on reading habits, deep work, and the deep life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
December 27, 2021
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Five books a month: Cal's exact system for making reading the default.
Discipline is freedom — and the foundation of a resilient life.
Taming email culture without imposing change on your colleagues.